I just came back from my trip to Mount Putuo with my parents and friends of them. It was a lot of fun and very interesting, because I learnt a lot more about Buddhism. Today, I’ll be sharing a photo diary of my trip.

Mount Putuo is one of the four important mountains in the Chinese buddhism. The island itself has a lot of temples and a thirty-three meter statue of Guanyin, the goddess of mercy. My parents are Buddhistic and wanted to visit the island.

I’m not buddhistic, but it was definitely a very interesting trip. In those two days I walked almost 20 km and most of that distance come from walking the stairs (so many stairs). It was really special to see so many people come to one place (where you first have to walk miles and miles to get there) and pray in front of a humongous statue and leave again. We also visited around 20 temples. Mount Putuo is not a place I would go to if I could pick a travel destination, but it was really pretty and I highly recommend visiting it if you want to sniff up some culture.